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A New Species of Neostethus(Teleostei RAFFLES BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGY 2014 Taxonomy & Systematics RAFFLES BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGY 62: 175–187 Date of publication: 4 April 2014 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:51117AFB-1F21-4735-A4DE-01AC0B7509C5 A new species of Neostethus (Teleostei; Atherinomorpha; Phallostethidae) from Brunei Darussalam, with comments on northwestern Borneo as an area of endemism Lynne R. Parenti Abstract. Extensive collections of freshwater and coastal fi shes from throughout northwestern Borneo reveal a distinct phallostethid biota. Seven of the 23 species in the phallostethid subfamily Phallostethinae, known commonly as priapiumfi shes, live in northwestern Borneo and of those, three are endemics, including the new species described herein. Neostethus geminus, new species, is most closely related to N. bicornis Regan, 1916 with which it shares two, elongate curved ctenactinia (vs. one elongate and one short ctenactinium as in other Neostethus) in mature males, a brown blotch on the pelvic-fi n rays of the proctal side of immature males, and a fl eshy, hoodlike fold in females that includes the anus and genital and urinary pores. Neostethus geminus differs from N. bicornis in being smaller (adults reach no more than 25.7 mm SL vs. 31 mm SL), and in having males with a relatively compact priapium with a foreshortened, broad aproctal axial bone that meets but does not overlap the pulvinular appendage (vs. a relatively elongate priapium with a long and narrow aproctal axial bone that overlaps the pulvinular appendage medially) and thin, nearly translucent, broad papillary bone expanded distally into a tab (vs. having a short papillary bone). Females have a thickened fl eshy, hoodlike fold that includes the anus, genital pore and urinary pore (vs. a relatively thin fold) and a thickened ridge just posterior to the fold (vs. lacking such a ridge). Neostethus geminus is described from coastal localities in Brunei Darussalam. The widespread Neostethus bicornis was described from Kuala Langat, Selangor, Peninsula Malaysia, and is known also from Thailand, Singapore, Palawan Island, Philippines, as well as northwestern Borneo and Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo; it is redescribed based on material from throughout its range. The two species are abundant in collections from Brunei, but were not taken at the same locality. Key words. Neostethus geminus, Neostethus bicornis, South China Sea, priapiumfi shes, allopatry INTRODUCTION are often collected in large numbers, priapiumfi shes are overlooked by scientists and local people alike who may One hundred years ago, British ichthyologist C. Tate Regan’s consider them the larvae of other more conspicuous species, (1913) description of the diminutive Phallostethus dunckeri if they notice them at all (Herre, 1940:16, 1942:139; personal from Muar, Peninsula Malaysia, introduced a peculiar group observation). of living teleost fi shes to science. The name of the new genus described the position of an intromittent organ or phallus on Unlike many other atherinomorph fi shes with intromittent the “chest”—anteroventrally on the body—of adult males. organs, priapiumfi shes are not livebearers. Males transfer The priapium, as Regan (1913) called it, is a complex sperm bundles to females and fertilisation is internal. Females diagnostic feature of some 23 species of atherinomorph then lay fertilised eggs that attach via elongate adhesive fi shes distributed throughout coastal and freshwater habitats fi laments to plants or other objects (Smith, 1927; Villadolid & of Southeast Asia. Four genera of priapiumfi shes, as they are Manacop, 1935; Grier & Parenti, 1994). Male phallostethids known commonly in English, are classifi ed in the subfamily are bilaterally asymmetric: the anus is offset to one side of Phallostethinae, and with their sister group, the monotypic the body midline, the proctal side, and the seminal papilla is subfamily Dentatherininae, comprise the atheriniform family offset to the opposite side of the body midline, the aproctal Phallostethidae (Parenti & Louie, 1998: fi g. 2; Table 1). side (Regan, 1916). Sinistral males are those with the aproctal side the left; dextral males are those with the aproctal side Priapiumfi shes are small (maximum size recorded is 37 mm the right. Dextral and sinistral males occur in about equal SL for an adult female of the Philippine Gulaphallus eximius; numbers in collections except for three species in which Herre, 1942:144), transparent to opaque, surface-feeding males are exclusively sinistral or dextral (Parenti, 1986a). fi shes (Parenti, 1989). Although they move in schools and The anus and urogenital pores of female phallostethines are anterior on the body and lie just ventral to the pectoral-fi n base (TeWinkel, 1939), as in males. Unlike males, females Division of Fishes Smithsonian Institution, PO BOX 37012, National Museum of are not asymmetric with the single exception of the Philippine Natural History, MRC 159, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 USA; Email: [email protected] Gulaphallus falcifer (see Parenti, 1986b). © National University of Singapore ISSN 2345-7600 (electronic) | ISSN 0217-2445 (print) 175 Parenti: New species of Neostethus from Brunei Darussalam A series of publications over a brief seven-year period (e.g., (2005; Sg. Rajang, Sarawak). Broader systematic revisions Bailey, 1936; Aurich, 1937; TeWinkel, 1939; Woltereck, of fi sh taxa from northwestern Borneo include those on 1942 a, b) documented intensive study of the comparative phallostethines (Parenti, 1989), viviparous halfbeaks of morphology and development of the priapium. Taxonomy the genera Dermogenys and Nomorhamphus (Meisner, of priapiumfishes grabbed the attention of American 2001), and balitorid suckers of the genera Gastromyzon, ichthyologists Albert W. C. T. Herre and George S. Myers Hypergastromyzon, and Neogastromyzon (Tan, 2006). Taken and their students and colleagues at Stanford University who together, these and other compilations provide detailed by 1942 recognised eighteen species (Herre, 1942). After a systematic data on the freshwater fi shes of northwestern nearly 30-year hiatus, a nineteenth species, Phenacostethus Borneo, although most are unfortunately defi cient in their posthon, was described from coastal Thailand by Tyson R. coverage of coastal and mangrove fi shes. Data on these Roberts (1971a). I described Phenacostethus trewavasae fi shes are divided between freshwater and marine reviews. from Sarawak, eastern Malaysia (Parenti, 1986a) and then A checklist of the fi shes of the South China Sea, understood Neostethus robertsi from Luzon, the Philippines, as part to be a compilation of marine species, included 10 of the of a phylogenetic systematic revision of priapiumfi shes; then 11 known species of Neostethus; it excluded Philippine synonymy of two species brought the total then to 19 species freshwater species of the genus Gulaphallus (Randall & Lim, (Parenti, 1989). 2000). A notable segment of the Sabah fi sh biota was omitted by Inger & Chin (1990: 12) who included “Only those [taxa] Subsequent fieldwork throughout the Indo-Australian for which positive freshwater records in North Borneo [Sabah] Archipelago exposed further details of phallostethine are available…” They did not report on their collections of systematics and distribution: I collected and described the fi rst Neostethus from coastal habitats made in 1950 as part of the species of Phallostethus known from Borneo (Phallostethus North Borneo survey; some of these specimens held in the lehi Parenti 1996) and the fi rst phallostethine known from collections of the Field Museum, Chicago, are included here Sulawesi (Neostethus djajaorum Parenti & Louie, 1998). as comparative material of N. bicornis. Thus, as well as to Description of P. lehi from northwestern Borneo bolstered the describe a new species of Neostethus based on comparative idea that there is a coherent biota throughout the South China morphology, an equally important purpose of this report is to Sea and that we might expect to discover new phallostethine spotlight the understudied yet diverse coastal and mangrove taxa distributed around the southern portion of the sea that fi sh fauna around the southern South China Sea. includes the Sunda Shelf (Parenti, 1991; 1996). The recent discovery and description of a third species of Phallostethus, MATERIAL AND METHODS P. cuulong, directly across the South China Sea in coastal Vietnam (Shibukawa et al, 2012; Fig. 1), as well that of the The fi ne osteology of Neostethus bicornis specimens from new species of Neostethus described herein, corroborates Thailand by Roberts (1971b) is representative of species of that prediction. Neostethus borneensis Herre, 1939, is the fi rst phallostethid species reported and described from Borneo which harbors a rich priapiumfi sh biota: seven of the 23 species in the subfamily Phallostethinae live in northwestern Borneo and three of those, including N. geminus, are endemic (Table 1). Neostethus bicornis Regan, 1916, with its two elongate ctenactinia, has been one of the most distinctive and readily identifi able of the phallostethids, especially since publication of a detailed osteological review by Roberts (1971b). I reported material of this broadly distributed species from Thailand, Peninsula Malaysia, Singapore, northwestern Borneo, and the Philippines (Parenti, 1989:270). Further study of specimens identifi ed initially as N. bicornis collected in coastal localities in Brunei in 1997 led to the discovery of this new species. Neostethus bicornis and N. geminus are hypothesized to be sister
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